[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-26 Thread Andrea Righi
** Description changed: [Impact] Ubuntu provides the "lowlatency" kernel: a kernel optimized for applications that have special "low latency" requirements. Currently, this kernel does not include any specific UBUNTU SAUCE patches to improve the extra "low latency" requirements, but

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-26 Thread Andrea Righi
** Description changed: [Impact] Ubuntu provides the "lowlatency" kernel: a kernel optimized for applications that have special "low latency" requirements. Currently, this kernel does not include any specific UBUNTU SAUCE patches to improve the extra "low latency" requirements, but

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-29 Thread Andrea Righi
@dsmythies thank you so much for sharing the results of your tests, really useful info! I'm planning to do more tests setting the performance governor, I've been doing my initial tests only with the default Ubuntu settings, that means with the "Balanced" power mode enabled (that I think it's using

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-29 Thread Andrea Righi
@colin-king thanks! Any suggestion in particular? I was thinking to lmbench, netperf and fio. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2051342 Title: Enable lowlatency settings in

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1965303] Re: Migrate from fbdev drivers to simpledrm and DRM fbdev emulation layer

2024-01-29 Thread Andrea Righi
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) Status: Confirmed ** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 (Ubuntu Noble) Importance: Undecided Status: Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051533] [NEW] Noble update: v6.7.2 upstream stable release

2024-01-29 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: SRU Justification Impact: The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream by originating either directly

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-30 Thread Andrea Righi
@colin-king noticed, I just left a thank you message in the article. I'll still do the tests, but it's nice to see that someone else is contributing to this! Another thing that I'd like to measure is to bpftrace the time spent in the tick handler before and after these changes applied, because we

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-01-30 Thread Andrea Righi
@andysem correct, without `nohz_full` specified at boot CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL has no effect, except for the little extra overhead that it's adding to the tick handler (there is still some overhead with this option enabled, even if it's not used). That's why I'd like to measure the time spent in some of

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051733] Re: Specifying nohz_full disables CPU frequency scaling

2024-01-30 Thread Andrea Righi
@dsmythies IIUC this happens also with a mainline kernel, right? Not just the Ubuntu lowlatency one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-signed-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2051733 Title:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-02-01 Thread Andrea Righi
@andysem yes that is also another possibility. The idea is to do a lot of tests and if we find that there's a remote possibility to introduce significant performance regressions in certain cases we can still keep HZ=250, but definitely go with the other options. -- You received this bug notificat

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-02-06 Thread Andrea Righi
More tests and results available here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/enable-low-latency-features-in-the- generic-ubuntu-kernel-for-24-04/42255 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051342] Re: Enable lowlatency settings in the generic kernel

2024-02-07 Thread Andrea Righi
@turner basically any type of I/O workload can benefit from the HZ=1000 change, I haven't posted any test result, because in the scope of this proposal I wanted to focus mainly at the regression potential for CPU- intensive workloads and the benefits in terms of power consumption (this one as a pos

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2000706] [NEW] Lunar update: v6.1.1 upstream stable release

2022-12-29 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: SRU Justification Impact: The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream by originating either directly

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2000706] Re: Lunar update: v6.1.1 upstream stable release

2022-12-30 Thread Andrea Righi
** Description changed: + SRU Justification - SRU Justification + Impact: +    The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar +    in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to +    demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream +  

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2002079] [NEW] Lunar update: v6.1.2 upstream stable release

2023-01-06 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: SRU Justification Impact: The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream by originating either directly

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1981968] Re: bcmwl fails to build on the latest kinetic kernel 5.19

2023-01-09 Thread Andrea Righi
** Also affects: bcmwl (Ubuntu Jammy) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to bcmwl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1981968 Title: bcmwl fails to build on the latest kinetic

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1981968] Re: bcmwl fails to build on the latest kinetic kernel 5.19

2023-01-09 Thread Andrea Righi
I included the extra fixes in the attached debdiff to properly support 5.19 in jammy, I'll create a separate bug tracker to fix the issue reported by satadru-umich in kinetic... thanks and sorry I'm noticing it only now! ** Patch added: "bcmwl-support-5.19.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/u

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2002634] [NEW] bcmwl dkms requires additional fixes to properly support kernel 5.19+

2023-01-12 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] As reported in LP: #1981968 kernel 5.19 requires additional patches to properly support this driver: https://gist.github.com/joanbm/37fd0590f30b41e7e89ade6e242ca16e https://gist.github.com/joanbm/052d8e951ba63d5eb5b6960bfe4e031a Without these patches the kernel wou

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2002634] Re: bcmwl dkms requires additional fixes to properly support kernel 5.19+

2023-01-12 Thread Andrea Righi
debdiff in attach allows to properly support kernel 5.19. ** Patch added: "kinetic-bcmwl-properly-support-linux-5.19.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/2002634/+attachment/5640977/+files/kinetic-bcmwl-properly-support-linux-5.19.debdiff -- You received this bug not

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1981968] Re: bcmwl fails to build on the latest kinetic kernel 5.19

2023-01-12 Thread Andrea Righi
Opened LP: #2002634 for the other issue (kernel warning) in kinetic. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to bcmwl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1981968 Title: bcmwl fails to build on the latest kinetic kernel 5.19

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1981968] Re: bcmwl fails to build on the latest kinetic kernel 5.19

2023-01-12 Thread Andrea Righi
new debdiff for jammy (v2) with the proper changelog entry. ** Patch added: "bcmwl-support-5.19-v2.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1981968/+attachment/5640985/+files/bcmwl-support-5.19-v2.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2013014] [NEW] net:l2tp.sh failure with lunar:linux 6.2

2023-03-27 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] Kernel selftest net:l2tp.sh is failing with the latest lunar/linux 6.2 kernel, the error is the following: RTNETLINK answers: Protocol not supported Using `bash -x` we can see that the last command executed is the following: ip -netns host-1 l2tp add tunnel tu

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2013019] [NEW] ubuntu_nbd_smoke_test- failure with lunar/linux 6.2

2023-03-27 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] nbd smoke test is triggering the following hung task timeout trace with lunar/linux 6.2: 615 10:58:25 DEBUG| [stdout] [ 484.429923] INFO: task systemd-udevd:16656 blocked for more than 120 seconds. 616 10:58:25 DEBUG| [stdou

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2013014] Re: net:l2tp.sh failure with lunar:linux 6.2

2023-03-28 Thread Andrea Righi
After explicitly loading the modules the test completes correctly: sudo modprobe l2tp_ip6 sudo modprobe l2tp_ip sudo modprobe l2tp_eth $ sudo ./tools/testing/selftests/net/l2tp.sh TEST: IPv4 basic L2TP tunnel[ OK ] TEST: IPv4 route through L2TP tunnel

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2013014] Re: net:l2tp.sh failure with lunar:linux 6.2

2023-03-28 Thread Andrea Righi
It looks like the problem here is that with 6.2 (in lunar) the l2tp modules are not loaded automatically, in 5.19 (kinetic) they were loaded automatically without an explicit modprobe. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2013063] [NEW] debug-wp-migration from ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests segfault on arm64 with linux 6.2

2023-03-28 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: 212921:50:41 INFO | START ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests.debug-wp-migration ubuntu_kvm_unit_tests.debug-wp-migrationtimestamp=1679867441 timeout=1800localtime=Mar 26 21:50:41 213021:50:41 DEBUG| Persistent state client._record_indent now

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2013064] [NEW] ubuntu_ltp_kernel_misc.zram01 fails to create xfs on a device too small in lunar

2023-03-28 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: 16637 zram01 5 TINFO: make xfs filesystem on /dev/zram3 16638 Filesystem must be larger than 300MB. 16639 Usage: mkfs.xfs 16640 /* blocksize */[-b size=num] 16641 /* config file */[-c options=xxx] 16642 /*

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2013160] [NEW] ubuntu_lxc.lxc-test-checkpoint-restore test failure in lunar with linux 6.2

2023-03-28 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: lxc checkpoint-restore test case is failing with the following error (it seems to be unable to connect to a counterpart, maybe it requires to enable other components): 480010:27:55 INFO | START ubuntu_lxc.lxc-test-checkpoint-restore ubuntu_lxc.lxc-test

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2013014] Re: net:l2tp.sh failure with lunar:linux 6.2

2023-03-30 Thread Andrea Righi
Upstream commit 65b32f801bfb ("uapi: move IPPROTO_L2TP to in.h") introduced this regression. With that commit we moved IPPROTO_L2TP from a define to an enum, breaking the macro that generates the module alias. This is the reason why the modules are not loaded automatically anymore. Upstream threa

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2014953] [NEW] kernel_selftest: devlink_port_split.py mlx5_core warning triggers a failure

2023-04-01 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: The devlink command seems to print a warning that is considered as a failure during this test: 435612:18:20 DEBUG| Running 'make run_tests -C net TEST_PROGS=devlink_port_split.py TEST_GEN_PROGS='' TEST_CUSTOM_PROGS=''' 14357 12:18:20 DEBUG| [std

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2015741] Re: efivarfs:efivarfs.sh in ubuntu_kernel_selftests crash L-6.2 ARM64 node dazzle (rcu_preempt detected stalls)

2023-04-11 Thread Andrea Righi
Same issue as LP: #2011748, that should be fixed by: a6d8a9c1e5fa ("arm64: efi: Use SMBIOS processor version to key off Ampere quirk") -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2015741

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2016186] Re: 5.19 not reporting cgroups v1 blkio.throttle.io_serviced

2023-04-14 Thread Andrea Righi
It might be worth to report this also upstream, apparently there was a behavior change with the blkio controller in cgroup1 that happend at some point between 5.15 and 5.19. I'll do more tests and will let you know if I find anything relevant. Thanks for reporting this! -- You received this bug n

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1943560] [NEW] ubuntu_ltp.kernel_misc test failure on ppc64el

2021-09-14 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: ubuntu_ltp.kernel_misc test failure on impish linux 5.13: STARTubuntu_ltp.kernel_miscubuntu_ltp.kernel_misc 02:33:58 DEBUG| [stdout] cpufreq_boost1 TFAIL : cpufreq_boost.c:189: compare time spent with and without boost (-2%) ...  384612 Traceb

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1943694] [NEW] ubuntu_ltp cpuhotplug test failure on arm64

2021-09-15 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: ubuntu_ltp cpuhotplug03 test is failing with the following error on arm64: cpuhotplug03 1 TFAIL: No cpuhotplug_do_spin_loop processes found on CPU1 ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1943695] [NEW] ubuntu_ltp.fs test timeout

2021-09-15 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: Some times this test can fail with the following error: 06:20:37 DEBUG| [stdout] tag=isofs stime=1631081630 dur=0 exit=exited stat=32 core=no cu=1 cs=1 ... 06:20:37 DEBUG| [stdout] Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL! 06:20:37 DEBUG| [stdout] tst_test.c:1399: TINFO: If you are r

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1943696] [NEW] ubuntu_ltp controller test failure

2021-09-15 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: I think we need to fix the test itself (not really a kernel issue probably), but worth investigating: 07:35:14 DEBUG| [stdout] mount: /dev/cpuctl: cpuctl already mounted or mount point busy. 07:35:14 DEBUG| [stdout] cpuctl_test_fj1 TFAIL : ltpapicmd.c:188: failed to

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1943697] [NEW] net veth selftest failure

2021-09-15 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: This is an old error that doesn't seem to happen if we run this test isolated from the others, maybe the reason is that something is not cleaned up properly (we should probably consider to exclude this test from the net tests and run it isolated as a separate test): 1

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1943699] [NEW] ubuntu_ltp crypto test failure

2021-09-15 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: 6:28:16 DEBUG| [stdout] tag=af_alg06 stime=1631118362 dur=0 exit=exited stat=0 core=no cu=0 cs=0 16:28:16 DEBUG| [stdout] startup='Wed Sep 8 16:26:02 2021' 16:28:16 DEBUG| [stdout] tst_test.c:1353: TINFO: Timeout per run is 0h 05m 00s 16:28:16 DEBUG| [stdout] ../../../includ

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1943700] [NEW] ubuntu_ltp cve test failure on arm64

2021-09-15 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: We should consider to increase the timeout for this test, because in some slow systems it may fail with the following error: 16:25:59 DEBUG| [stdout] tag=cve-2018-101 stime=1631117534 dur=0 exit=exited stat=0 core=no cu=0 cs=0 16:25:59 DEBUG| [stdout] startup='Wed Sep 8

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1944028] [NEW] linux-aws 5.13: KCSAN bug on Xen-based instances

2021-09-18 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: 5.13 with KCSAN enabled reports the following bug on Xen-based instances. Maybe it's worth investigating to determine if they are false positives or not, for now, I think we can just disable CONFIG_KCSAN to prevent this boot problem: 200 01:51:29

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1944411] [NEW] ubuntu_bpf: build failure with kernel 5.13

2021-09-21 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: 12886 Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/if_link.h' 12887 libbpf: elf: skipping unrecognized data section(5) .rodata.str1.1

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1944411] Re: ubuntu_bpf: build failure with kernel 5.13

2021-09-21 Thread Andrea Righi
We likely need this commit to fix this build issue, but it's not trivial to backport it, we are going to hint the test for now: commit 4d1b62986125b6de596c98310543652a7892e097 Author: Alexei Starovoitov Date: Thu May 13 17:36:20 2021 -0700 selftests/bpf: Convert few tests to light skeleton

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1944520] [NEW] ubuntu_nbd_smoke_test: failed to setup device

2021-09-22 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: ubuntu_nbd_smoke_test seems to fail on small instances when tested in any cloud: 355 NBD device /dev/nbd0 created 356 found nbd export 357 NBD exports found: 358 test 359 starting client with NBD device /dev/nbd0 360

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1944550] [NEW] impish/linux-gcp: CONFIG_BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF must be set to y

2021-09-22 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: This option will disable uprivileged BPF by default. It can be reenabled, though, as it uses the new value 2 for the kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled sysctl. That value disables it, but allows the sysctl knob to be set back to 0. This allows sysadmins to enable unprivil

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1944554] [NEW] impish/linux-aws: ubuntu_ltp_syscalls.perf_event_open02 test failure

2021-09-22 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: 81727 04:16:04 INFO | START ubuntu_ltp_syscalls.perf_event_open02ubuntu_ltp_syscalls.perf_event_open02 timestamp=1632284164timeout=900localtime=Sep 22 04:16:04 81728 04:16:04 DEBUG| Persistent state client._recor

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1947557] [NEW] kernel panic: NULL pointer dereference in wb_timer_f()

2021-10-18 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: I can trigger the following kernel panic with the latest impish kernel 5.13.0-19-generic, running systemd autopkgtest using --enable-kvm for the instances created by systemd to run the autotest: [ 119.987108] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0098 [

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1947557] Re: kernel panic: NULL pointer dereference in wb_timer_f()

2021-10-18 Thread Andrea Righi
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Impish) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Andrea Righi (arighi) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Impish) Assignee: (u

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1947557] Re: kernel panic: NULL pointer dereference in wb_timer_f()

2021-10-18 Thread Andrea Righi
Additional information about this (from the memory dump that I was able to get): crash> gdb list *(wb_timer_fn+0x44) 0x991abcc4 is in wb_timer_fn (/build/impish/block/blk-wbt.c:237). 235 static int latency_exceeded(struct rq_wb *rwb, struct blk_rq_stat *stat) 236 { 237

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1947557] Re: kernel panic: NULL pointer dereference in wb_timer_f()

2021-10-19 Thread Andrea Righi
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YW6N2qXpBU3oc50q@arighi-desktop/T/#u ^ Potential upstream fix (I tested with this one applied and I couldn't break the kernel), let's wait for a feedback from the LKML, if that fix is reasonable I'll send a proper SRU email to apply it to the Ubuntu kernel. -- You re

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1947709] [NEW] Drop "UBUNTU: SAUCE: cachefiles: Page leaking in cachefiles_read_backing_file while vmscan is active"

2021-10-19 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] "UBUNTU: SAUCE: cachefiles: Page leaking in cachefiles_read_backing_file while vmscan is active" has been applied to fix a page leaking issue. However a slightly different fix has been applied upstream: 9a24ce5b66f9c8190d63b15f4473600db4935f1f cachefiles: Fix page

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1947709] Re: Drop "UBUNTU: SAUCE: cachefiles: Page leaking in cachefiles_read_backing_file while vmscan is active"

2021-10-19 Thread Andrea Righi
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Impish) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Jammy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Focal) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Hirsute) Import

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1947709] Re: Drop "UBUNTU: SAUCE: cachefiles: Page leaking in cachefiles_read_backing_file while vmscan is active"

2021-10-19 Thread Andrea Righi
** Description changed: [Impact] "UBUNTU: SAUCE: cachefiles: Page leaking in cachefiles_read_backing_file while vmscan is active" has been applied to fix a page leaking issue. However a slightly different fix has been applied upstream: 9a24ce5b66f9c8190d63b15f4473600db4935f1f ca

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1947709] Re: Drop "UBUNTU: SAUCE: cachefiles: Page leaking in cachefiles_read_backing_file while vmscan is active"

2021-10-19 Thread Andrea Righi
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Bionic) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Focal) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Hirsute) Status: Incomplete => Co

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1947557] Re: kernel panic: NULL pointer dereference in wb_timer_f()

2021-10-19 Thread Andrea Righi
** Description changed: + [Impact] + + It is possible to trigger a kernel panic with the latest impish kernel + running systemd autopkgtest using --enable-kvm with the test instances + created by systemd during the autotest. The panic happens in the host, + not in the guest VM executed by systemd

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1948038] [NEW] disable CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS in linux 5.15

2021-10-21 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] KFENCE devs are changing CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS to be disabled by default, because it's introducing more problems than benefits: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211019102524.2807208-2-el...@google.com/T/#u This also seems to trigger QEMU bugs during the systemd au

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2038437] Re: mantic:linux ubuntu_qrt_kernel_security.KernelSecurityTest.test_082_stack_guard_kernel: Could not find a suitable kernel module to test

2023-10-04 Thread Andrea Righi
Patch in attach (against qa-regression-testing) allows to fix this issue. ** Patch added: "0001-scripts-test-kernel-security.py-support-zstd-compres.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2038437/+attachment/5706797/+files/0001-scripts-test-kernel-security.py-support-zstd

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2038522] [NEW] disable shiftfs

2023-10-05 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] Now that all the filesystems that we officially support have the idmapped mounts capability we can get rid of shiftfs. The benefit of this change is that we don't have to maintain an out-of- tree filesystem anymore and we can completely rely on upstream features. [

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2038611] [NEW] drop all references to is_rust_module.sh in kernels >= 6.5

2023-10-06 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] The script tools/is_rust_module.sh has been dropped by this commit: 079c66bbe2f8 ("UBUNTU: SAUCE: btf, scripts: rust: drop is_rust_module.sh") And upstream as well (in 6.6): 41bdc6decda0 ("btf, scripts: rust: drop is_rust_module.sh") But we still have a refer

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2038611] Re: drop all references to is_rust_module.sh in kernels >= 6.5

2023-10-06 Thread Andrea Righi
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Mantic) Importance: Undecided Status: Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2038611 Title: drop all references to is_rust_mod

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2039009] [NEW] do not ship ZSTD compressed modules in jammy/hwe-6.5 kernels

2023-10-11 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: Providing zstd compressed modules may break user-space scripts/tools/binaries that are relying on the .ko naming schema. The kernel can still support ZSTD compressed modules (via CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD), but our shipped kernel modules will be just regular .ko files. **

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2039010] [NEW] revert support for arbitrary symbol length in modversion in hwe kernels

2023-10-11 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: The following patch may break user-space, providing an actual ABI change: UBUNTU: SAUCE: modpost: support arbitrary symbol length in modversion This is not critical for new releases (also considering that the potential breakage is unlikely to happen, unless some tools/scri

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2020356] [NEW] generate linux-lib-rust only on amd64

2023-05-22 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] Rust is only supported by amd64 at the moment, so there is no reason to generate linux-lib-rust packages on the other architectures. [Test case] Simply build the kernel, generating all the deb packages. [Fix] Produce linux-lib-rust only on amd64. [Regression pot

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2020413] [NEW] fix typo in config-checks invocation

2023-05-23 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] After migrating to the new annotations-only model in jammy we introduced a typo in debian/rules.d/4-checks.mk, that is triggered if we opt to not migrate to the new model and still use the old configs+annotations. [Test case] With debian./config/config.common.ubunt

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2020531] [NEW] support python < 3.9 with annotations

2023-05-23 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] At the moment we can't use the annotations scripts in focal, because we are using the'|=' update operator for merging dicts, that has been introduced with python 3.9. Rewrite the code that is using this operator in a more portable way and apply this change everywher

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2019979] Re: nvidia-dkms-* FTBS with linux 6.3

2023-05-25 Thread Andrea Righi
** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 (Ubuntu Lunar) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server (Ubuntu Lunar) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 (Ubuntu Lunar) Importance: Undecid

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2019869] Re: nvidia-dkms-390: better support for kernel 6.2

2023-05-25 Thread Andrea Righi
Attached debdiff contains the SRU patch to fix the same nvidia-dkms-390 build error with kernel 6.2 for lunar. ** Patch added: "nvidia-dkms-390-lunar-better-support-for-linux-6.2.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/2019869/+attachment/5675576/+fi

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2019869] Re: nvidia-dkms-390: better support for kernel 6.2

2023-05-25 Thread Andrea Righi
Wrong debdiff, here's a new one cleaned up properly, ignore comment #5. ** Patch added: "nvidia-dkms-390-lunar-better-support-for-linux-6.2-v2.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/2019869/+attachment/5675615/+files/nvidia-dkms-390-lunar-better-sup

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2019869] Re: nvidia-dkms-390: better support for kernel 6.2

2023-05-25 Thread Andrea Righi
And here's the debdiff for jammy. Same fix. ** Patch added: "nvidia-dkms-390-jammy-better-support-for-linux-6.2.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/2019869/+attachment/5675616/+files/nvidia-dkms-390-jammy-better-support-for-linux-6.2.debdiff --

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2019869] Re: nvidia-dkms-390: better support for kernel 6.2

2023-05-29 Thread Andrea Righi
@zniavre in comment #6 I posted a patch for lunar, so it'll be applied also there at some point. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2019869 Title: nvidi

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2021605] [NEW] introduce do_lib_rust=true|false to enable/disable linux-lib-rust package

2023-05-30 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] Provide a variable do_lib_rust=true|false in the kernel build system to selectively enable the Rust packaging (linux-lib-rust) with specific kernels and specific architectures. Right now Rust should be enabled only in lunar and mantic and only on amd64. [Test case]

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2009253] Re: nvidia-dkms-450-server FTBS with linux 6.2

2023-06-01 Thread Andrea Righi
** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server (Ubuntu Jammy) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/20

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2022329] [NEW] EBS volume attachment during boot cause randomly EC2 instance to be stuck

2023-06-02 Thread Andrea Cristalli
Public bug reported: We create and deploy custom AMIs based on Ubuntu Jammy and we noticed since jammy-20230428 that randomly all the AMI based on it sometimes fail during the boot process. I can destroy and deploy again to get rid of this. The stack trace is always the same: ``` [ 849.765218]

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2022329] Re: EBS volume attachment during boot cause randomly EC2 instance to be stuck

2023-06-02 Thread Andrea Cristalli
It's not possible to attach logs due to the nature of the issue. the instances are completely isolated when it happens and i can only retrieve logs from AWS virtual serial console. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2023007] [NEW] kernel .config lowlatency improvements

2023-06-06 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] The lowlatency kernel in Ubuntu is specifically designed to prioritize high responsiveness, making it ideal for multimedia environments like DAWs and audio processing platforms, as well as soft real-time environments. With the introduction of a real-time kernel, it

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2023629] [NEW] enable multi-gen LRU by default

2023-06-13 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] Kernels >= 6.1 have the option to use an alternative least-recently-used (LRU) page reclaiming mechanism, called multi-gen LRU [1]. In short: the kernel used to maintain two LRU lists of "touched" pages: the "active" and "inactive" lists. The former contains pages t

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2023629] Re: enable multi-gen LRU by default

2023-06-13 Thread Andrea Righi
** Description changed: [Impact] Kernels >= 6.1 have the option to use an alternative least-recently-used (LRU) page reclaiming mechanism, called multi-gen LRU [1]. In short: the kernel used to maintain two LRU lists of "touched" pages: the "active" and "inactive" lists. The former

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2023629] Re: enable multi-gen LRU by default

2023-06-13 Thread Andrea Righi
** Description changed: [Impact] Kernels >= 6.1 have the option to use an alternative least-recently-used (LRU) page reclaiming mechanism, called multi-gen LRU [1]. In short: the kernel used to maintain two LRU lists of "touched" pages: the "active" and "inactive" lists. The former

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2023629] Re: enable multi-gen LRU by default

2023-06-13 Thread Andrea Righi
** Description changed: [Impact] Kernels >= 6.1 have the option to use an alternative least-recently-used (LRU) page reclaiming mechanism, called multi-gen LRU [1]. In short: the kernel used to maintain two LRU lists of "touched" pages: the "active" and "inactive" lists. The former

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2023629] Re: enable multi-gen LRU by default

2023-06-13 Thread Andrea Righi
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Mantic) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2023629 Title: enable multi-gen LRU by default Status in li

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2016398] Re: stacked overlay file system mounts that have chroot() called against them appear to be getting locked (by the kernel most likely?)

2023-06-20 Thread Andrea Righi
This patch should fix this bug without breaking the behavior of /proc/self/map_files. Can you give it a try? I can also prepare a test kernel if you need. ** Patch added: "0001-UBUNTU-SAUCE-overlayfs-fix-reference-count-mismatch.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2016

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2065005] Re: ThinkPad P16s fails to resume from suspend sometimes [6.8]

2024-09-10 Thread Andrea Ieri
This is actually no longer happening on my machine with more recent kernels (e.g. 6.8.0-41 at the moment). I also never used a vendor kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058165] Re: System freeze on copy large files on usb

2024-03-19 Thread Andrea Righi
Can you elaborate more on the freeze part? Does the system completely freezes and it never recovers or is it a temporary freeze (until the copy completes)? How much RAM do you have in your system? Can you check if the following helps to mitigate the problem? $ echo $((32 * 1024 * 1024)) | sudo

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058191] Re: Getting SIGSEGV and SIGILL in many programs

2024-03-19 Thread Andrea Righi
The message `mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged` really seems to indicate a potential hardware malfunction. Can you double check if this is happening only with the latest 6.8? Do you see anything similar in dmesg with other kernels? -- You received this bug notification because y

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2055805] Re: touchpad not working with kernel 6.8

2024-03-19 Thread Andrea Righi
I don't have the hardware at the moment. It'd be great if you could do a test with the latest mainline build, so that we can better understand if it's an upstream issue or something specific with the Ubuntu kernel (or maybe a kernel .config issue): https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.8.1/ Thank

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2055805] Re: touchpad not working with kernel 6.8

2024-03-19 Thread Andrea Righi
@tijs not exactly that kernel, but a kernel that has all the fixes that are included in 6.8.1. :) If you are willing to do one more test to confirm that everything is fine in the next candidate kernel for 24.04, you could try with 6.8.0-20.20 from this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058191] Re: Getting SIGSEGV and SIGILL in many programs

2024-03-19 Thread Andrea Righi
Can you give it a try also with the latest upstream 6.8 (available here https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.8.1/). This should help to verify if it's an upstream issue or a specific issue with the Ubuntu kernel. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel P

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058191] Re: Getting SIGSEGV and SIGILL in many programs

2024-03-20 Thread Andrea Righi
Hm... honestly this looks more like a user-space / brave issue than a kernel issue. Do you get similar SIGSEGV with other apps? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2058191 Title

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058191] Re: Getting SIGSEGV and SIGILL in many programs

2024-03-20 Thread Andrea Righi
Unfortunately those traces don't say much without the debugging symbols. If it happens also with the mainline kernel we should see similar bugs reported upstream, that's why I'm not very convinced about this being a kernel issue. More likely a library issue, considering that it happens with differe

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051560] Re: Provide python perf module

2024-03-22 Thread Andrea Righi
** Description changed: + [Impact] + + We need to provide the python perf module, because some applications + (such as tuned) require it. + + This module is implemented inside perf, provided by the kernel. + + At the moment we provide a distinct perf for each kernel installed in + the system. T

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058752] [NEW] ath11k high jitter and packet loss when operating in 802.11ax mode

2024-03-22 Thread Andrea Ieri
Public bug reported: On 6.5.0-26-generic, my QCNFA765 cannot really operate in 802.11ax mode. I have a Thinkpad P16s Gen 2 with a (soldered, sadly) QCNFA765 card, which uses the ath11k driver. I also have a Ruckus R650 AP, which supports wifi6. Connecting the two and pinging the AP yields the f

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051560] Re: Provide python perf module

2024-03-22 Thread Andrea Righi
Patch sent to the kernel team mailing list for review: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2024-March/149751.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2051560 Title:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2051560] Re: Provide python perf module

2024-03-22 Thread Andrea Righi
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2051560 Title: Provide python perf module Status in linux package in Ubu

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058752] Re: ath11k high jitter and packet loss when operating in 802.11ax mode

2024-03-22 Thread Andrea Ieri
Well, that was a pleasant surprise! On 6.8.0-11 the problem seems to be completely gone. I guess I'll be upgrading to Noble as soon as possible. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058830] [NEW] vp9 hw decode broken on modern AMD apus, needs amdgpu update

2024-03-23 Thread Andrea Agnolin
Public bug reported: Current version of amdgpu binaries in linux-firmware shipped with ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) and ubuntu 23.10 (mantic) create various problems when decoding VP9 content with the iGPU on modern AMD mobile processor (rembrant and phoenix, i.e. 6xxxU/H, 7x40U/H and 7x35U/H processor).

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058830] Re: vp9 hw decode broken on modern AMD apus, needs amdgpu update

2024-03-23 Thread Andrea Agnolin
** Summary changed: - vp9 hw decode broke on modern AMD apus, needs amdgpu update + vp9 hw decode broken on modern AMD apus, needs amdgpu update ** Description changed: - Current version of amdgpu in linux-firmware shipped with ubuntu 22.04 - (jammy) and ubuntu 23.10 (mantic) create various prob

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2058830] Re: vp9 hw decode broken on modern AMD apus, needs amdgpu update

2024-03-24 Thread Andrea Agnolin
** Description changed: Current version of amdgpu binaries in linux-firmware shipped with ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) and ubuntu 23.10 (mantic) create various problems when decoding VP9 content with the iGPU on modern AMD mobile processor (rembrant and phoenix, i.e. 6xxxU/H, 7x40U/H and 7x35U/H p

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2059080] [NEW] Add Real-time Linux Analysis tool (rtla) to linux-tools

2024-03-26 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] The **rtla** is a meta-tool that includes a set of commands that aims to analyze the real-time properties of Linux. Considering the latest "low-latency" capabilities acquired by the generic kernel and also considering the recent trend in Ubuntu to focus on performan

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2059237] Re: [Ubuntu-24.04] "array-index-out-of-bounds" error is observed after every reboot

2024-03-27 Thread Andrea Righi
Looking at the code this issue seems to be introduced by `UBUNTU: SAUCE: modpost: support arbitrary symbol length in modversion` and the UBSAN warning tells us that accessing vers->name[0] could be an out-of-bounds access. The struct modversion_info contains a flexibile array (name), that is corre

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2059762] [NEW] CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_HOST conflicts with kexec in linux >= 6.8 for noble

2024-03-29 Thread Andrea Righi
Public bug reported: [Impact] CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_HOST depends on !KEXEC_CORE in the latest 6.8 kernel. This was introduced by: cb8eb06d50fc ("x86/virt/tdx: Disable TDX host support when kexec is enabled") We cannot regress kexec, therefore we need to disable CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_HOST in the generic

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 2059237] Re: [Ubuntu-24.04] "array-index-out-of-bounds" error is observed after every reboot

2024-03-29 Thread Andrea Righi
If the issue is fixed without the extra patch, I think we can ignore it, it was probably a false positive from UBSAN. Let's keep an eye on it and if it shows up again in the future we can do a test with my additional patch. Thanks for update! -- You received this bug notification because you are

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